Steve Kirk,
Executive Director

PO Box 343529
Florida City, FL 33034

Phone: (305) 242-2142
Fax: (305) 242-2143

Email

County Served: Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Okeechobee, St. Lucie

Incorporated: 1982

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Headquartered in the country’s southernmost city that’s not on an island, Rural Neighborhoods has become the nation’s largest nonprofit developer of migrant and seasonal farmworker rental housing. Florida City calls itself “The gateway to the Florida Keys and the Everglades. It was settled in the early 1900s by settlers from Topeka, Kansas and Detroit Michigan. From its earliest days the economy was largely dependant on argriculture and saw an yearly influx of migrant workers. With its vulnerability to tropical hurricanes, the area has rebuilt its housing and infrastructure several times. The CDC’s mission is to provide a simple, decent place to live for low-income, working families from poor neighborhoods in the unincorporated rural areas of Miami-Dade, Collier, Hillsborough, Saint Lucie, Okeechobee and Hendry counties. While working to eliminate substandard housing, it also creates jobs, grows small businesses, expands consumer credit and offers entrepreneurial training. It’s vision is to create neighborhoods where people can live and grow, be neighbors first, and then good neighbors, to be a place families pass through on the road to home ownership.